Selection

The most important components of a school are the people who fill it.

Schools today face significant challenges in finding and retaining the talent required to help students excel and thrive in school and in life. In all too many schools, turnover is high, creating expensive recruiting and training costs. Yet ensuring a high-quality education for students demands high-quality education professionals.

Gallup's strengths-based selection approach gives school and district administrators a strategic system for addressing hiring challenges and optimizing performance of teachers and staff. In the battle for talent, Gallup can give you a competitive advantage.

Selecting for talent allows you to put the right people in the right place. People operating from their talents:

• learn the role faster, and adapt to variances more quickly, and demonstrate higher levels of commitment
• build stronger relationships with students, colleagues, and parents
• produce at higher quality, stay longer, and miss less work

School systems that select and develop employees based on their individual talents gain an advantage through a stronger talent base and build on their greatest asset -- their people.

Teachers

For more than 30 years, Gallup has studied outstanding teachers, resulting in substantial insight on what separates the most successful teachers from the rest. That research is the foundation for Gallup's TeacherInsight assessment.

Principals

Quality leadership is what separates a successful school from the rest. The best leaders stand out because of their innate talent. Gallup's tools for selection offer insight into this talent, looking at what the very best do well as a model for effective succession planning.

Gallup's PrincipalInsight tool lays the groundwork for succession planning by first determining those individuals with the talent to lead as principals. The naturally occurring patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior that make great principals can be vastly different than those present in outstanding teachers. By first screening applicants for their ability to shine as an aspiring principal, a district has a distinct advantage in growth and development by investing in the right people.

Once individuals with the talent to lead are identified, district leaders can work to groom and develop those best suited for the principal role. This gives the district the ability to proactively identify and develop their future leaders by providing developmental learning and experiences to supplement natural talent.

For more information about how Gallup can help you select outstanding teachers and principals for your schools, contact the Education Practice at 800.288.8592.